Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1887-01-08
TRADITIONS IN JOURNALISM.
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The Tendency 20 SEcvo Along IN npstoD
Paths-.Late innovations.
There is. or at least there was q trade
ton that the features Of journal must
be castiren in their pormanenoe. Auun.
written law, supposed to be- as unohang-
able as the Medic Persian statues, has
forbidden the slightest departure FROM
established methods. Ii OF course nnot
surprising that the publisher 81 q
weekly story paper in New York should
cling TO name which, sufficiently dc
scrptive Of the sheet when first issued,
by and by wholly lost its Significance.
The title came 60 be valuable trade
mark and an advertisements, Perhaps
Mr.. Bonner overestimated the risk Of a
change which else he would have been
glad to make, Look, for example, ut
the easy nominal transformation Of one
of our most successful magazines Serb
ner's had attained it's full growth before
it was reChristened The Century. The
process proved TO DO limo respect inju-
rious, But publishers have shrunt from
notifications far less important than
these. The proprietors of The Illus
trated London News could not 90 in.
duced to make slight transportation in
this laundering title and call their jour
nal The London Illustrated News.
A similar conseryatism--rath SUI
perstition--induces The London Times
to make all OF its leading articles just a
little over column long and to send
them headless into waiting world.
Apparently 1t is supposed chat the Brit,
isl empige would undergo a revolution
X the reader were allowed to know what
the essay was all about until hohad read
the final line, or il the, multitudinuus
advertisements of tue Thunderer should
be classified FOR che convenience of its
customers and the pubic, A tyrannical
tradition not only forbids the neutlOn
in the columns OF hrst-class newspaper
of the name OF anybody concerned IN its
making; but when the editor % The
London Saturday Review in its most
brilliant days dIel while he was the
subject Of more Of less extended mon
ton in every other Journal in the aity,
his own ignored him 50 completely a. to
take no notice Of the purely personal
fact OF his death. These are q few OF
the examples, which might be indei.
nitely multiplied, OF the tendency of
journalism to move along beaten paths
indeed IN aFbitratrary Futs.
OF late large threads have been made
upon these rigid notions and supersti-
tions. Not the least striking have oe-
Cured in English Journalism, herethey
were for long time most influential
Right under the nose Of the unchanging
Times have sprung up those social and
political publications, such as The Lon.
don Truth and Tile London World
which have most audaciously deifed the
cOnventionalitie and most widely de
parted from ld-fashioned rules and Gus
toms of the press, Note the substitution
in these prints Of the frank ana egotistic
Il" for the modest and iupersonad Eve
/ remember when tins mannerisn was
first adopted in this country 10y the late
f. T. &. JNdson, in New York, ia his
Ned Buntlne's Own. II was regarded
with contempt and horror by ali che
editorial Yves OF the town. But the
practice ID readily tolerated ia Mr. Lab,
ouchere and Mr., Yates. Ia other ways,
here and abroad the hard journalistic
lines have become lax, not 70 say loose.
The interyiew--al instrument SO obvious
and 50 convenient that, as in the case of
other ingenious and useful inventions,
one wonders that It was not discovered
bo!ore--has effected almost revolution,
Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.